Obscure props glitch, re: San Quentin 'Telechron' Clock

The time of day had become irrelevant since they were only waiting for the delaying writ to be lifted. The warden even says "let's make it about eleven thirty then."

How could you see a red aspect in a black and white film? Good eye on that though. I just watched the film and one other small error is after the visitation with her baby in the jail she's upset runs out and into into a brick wall and the wall gives. She then pounds the wall and you can see the wall giving as she hits it. I guess that proves she was strong enough to pistol-whip someone to death with her right hand. :-)

Wow, who would have thought anyone would notice THAT!?

Although this may sound nit-picky, towards the end of this movie when the gas chamber door was sealed with Graham inside, the guard had to pull DOWN on the lever that operated the airlock test. In the next shot, the guard still had his hand on this airlock handle, but it was in the raised, upright position instead of being down.

Also, it is stated the execution scene was filmed in a replica gas chamber on a Hollywood sound stage. If this is true, it is an amazingly good reproduction of the real San Quentin gas chamber, expecially the inside shot of the rear of the A & B chairs where the cyanide bags were affixed.

The sign on the gas chamber, "HANDS OFF ALL LEVERS AND VALVES" adds somewhat to the realism.

You might have missed it, but in the movie they made allowances for that clock showing an inaccurate time.

One of the prison workers who was readying the gas chamber area had somebody get him Western Union on the phone to give him the correct time. He spoke to Western Union and says, "Give me a time check, please." Then he says to one of the other prison workers, "We're three seconds slow. Record it."

So, I'm assuming they probably knew there was a slightly incorrect time on the clock (i.e. they, too, saw the red dot). They called Western Union to get the correct time, then, seeing that the time difference wasn't all that significant (only 3 seconds), they didn't bother to set the clock to the correct time - which would have made the red dot turn to white. (As the movie is in black and white, the "red" dot appears as black.) They simply noted the 3 seconds difference in the log book.

Interesting point of technical trivia, though. I'll bet hardly anybody nowadays knows anything about those Telechron wall clocks with the red dots, so, good eye.